Message from the President (Sp16)

Steven Pritzker

Welcome to the first edition of our newsletter – be sure to save a copy since it may be a valuable collector’s item. This newsletter is part of several new initiatives which include an updated website. We’ve formed a committee working on a conference for Division 10 which will take place separately from the APA convention at a different time of year. We will keep you advised as plans move along.

Our division is in very good shape. Our membership has grown over the last few years, in part because of our offer of one year of free membership to new members. One of our goals is to improve the retention rate so we hope all of you, especially our first year members, renew and continue to enjoy connecting with scholars with the same interests. Our membership chair, Magdelana Grohman provides additional details in her membership update.

Membership includes a free subscription to our outstanding journal, Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and The Arts had a fantastic year. As editors Roni Reiter-Palmon and Pablo Tinio reported last summer, the Impact Factor rose to 3.054 (from 1.787 the previous year), and the journal now ranks 17th out of 83 journals in the Psychology/Experimental category (up from 41 out of 84). In 2014, articles were downloaded from 58 countries outside of the United States. The editors also reported a nice rise in submissions — there were 87 in 2012, 109 in 2013, 161 in 2014, and 169 in 2015. Last year, Marcos Nadal and Thalia Goldstein were appointed as Associate Journal Editors.

A number of Division 10 members are featured in the new Creativity in the Classroom video. This was prepared with support from APA’s Coalition for Psychology in Schools and Education. This video is designed to help K-12th grade teachers since they are not receiving any training about creativity in most schools of education. Hopefully it will be used in psychology classes, teacher education classes and professional development environments. If you know any teachers or administrators, please spread the word.

We have many members who are contributing their considerable skills to help us grow and change. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank them.

Paul J. Silvia

President-Elect and Programming Chair,

Heather Snyder

Treasurer

Jen Katz-Buonincontro

Secretary, Programming Chair, and Newsletter Co-Editor

James C Kaufman,

Past President

Scott B. Kaufman

Member-at-large

Danny Wedding

Member-at-large

Pamela J. McCrory

Member-at-large

Alexander S. McKay

Student/APAGS Rep

Paul Snowden

International Representative

Richard Hass

Webmaster and Newsletter Editor

Annabel J Cohen

Council Representative

Pablo L. Tinio

Journal Editor and Representative to the Coalition for Psychology in Schools and Education

Ronie Reiter-Palmon

Journal Editor

Marcos Nadal

Associate Journal Editor

Thalia Goldstein

Associate Journal Editor

Oshin Vartanian

Chair, Awards Committee

Pablo P. L. Tinio and Diana Rivera

Co-Chairs, Education Committee

Magdalena Grohman

Chair, Membership Committee

Sandra Russ

Chair, Fellows Committee

Paul J. Silvia

Chair Publications and Website Committee.

Pablo P. L. Tinio

Representative to the APA Coalition for Psychology in the Schools and Education

Elections for President-Elect, Council Representative and International Representative coming up this year. If you’d like to run, send an e-mail so Spritzker@Saybrook.edu by March 24th. If you’d like to get involved in a committee for 2016-17, just let me know.

We hope this newsletter will help connect our members. We want to hear what you are doing that is of interest to our members. Since we are committed to creativity, we are open to any ideas on how we can make our newsletter more dynamic and relevant.

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The Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts (Division 10 of the American Psychological Association) is committed to interdisciplinary scholarship, both theoretical and empirical, encompassing the visual, literary, and performing arts.